• Born to a single mother, Vera, a Spire Practitioner. Learned small science from her.
• Her mother attempted to help a group of strangers who turned out to be witchhunters.
• Ethel swore herself to solitude, resentful towards both the witchhunters and her mother for abandoning her to follow her own slef-righteous ideals. She curses the witchhunters, losing her fangs & claws in the process.
• Used her connection with spirits to avoid contact with danger; including other cats. Came to depend heavily upon their aid.
• During a particularly bad a storm, a family managed to sneak into Ethel's den. She chased them off when she discovered this, turning a deaf ear towards the father's curses.
• Small science begins to disappear. Ethel is left exposed without her spirit aids. Terrified to even leave her den, she struggles to survive.
• On the brink of starvation, Ethel attempts to catch food, but is attacked by a coyote. Two strangers fend off the beast, but Ethel flees from their aid.
• Ethel succumbs to the infection that festers in her wounds.

For such a long life lived, there is so little to speak of it.

As a child, Ethel knew only her mother, and the loving ideals she preached since even before Ethel's birth. She spoke of generosity, self-sacrifice. Speak peace, not war. She was wonderful; there was no one Ethel adored more. They lived within a cut in a mountains; a passageway many often used to cross through. As a Spire, Ethel's mother Vera used the aid of spirits to help guide visitors through. She would go on to teach this to Ethel as well, who quickly took to the art.

But not every stranger they met was so peaceful. Ethel knew of the existence of witchhunters, and how her mother believed that they could ever talk to them. When a group of such cats eventually passed through, her mother's friendly gestures and pleas of diplomacy fell to deaf ears. They cut her down without a second thought, unaware Ethel had witnessed the whole thing.

"Take their claws so that they may never do harm again. Rot their fangs so that they may never speak harm again."

Hate poured into every word, mindless to what she was doing. The witchhunters would never be able to bring harm to another again... but neither would she. Still, it became obvious to Ethel during that time that her mother had been wrong. So terribly, and tragically wrong, and in pursuit of her own self-righteousness, had consequently abandoned her own child to face the world with no one else to guide her but wayward spirits.

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Cause of Death: Infected wounds.

Seaborn knew the end was coming. He wasn't ready to die. Is anyone?

He reacted poorly, as anyone might. He confessed his love to Snowborn and left their group, robbing him of the chance even to give a proper reply. Worse, he'd hidden his illness out of sheer pride, and he died alone for it.